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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2014

Filed:

Jul. 21, 2006
Applicants:

Kenneth J. Ruchala, Madison, WI (US);

Gustavo H. Olivera, Madison, WI (US);

Weiguo LU, Madison, WI (US);

Eric Schnarr, McFarland, WI (US);

John H. Hughes, Madison, WI (US);

Jeffrey M. Kapatoes, Madison, WI (US);

Thomas R. Mackie, Verona, WI (US);

Paul J. Reckwerdt, Madison, WI (US);

Inventors:

Kenneth J. Ruchala, Madison, WI (US);

Gustavo H. Olivera, Madison, WI (US);

Weiguo Lu, Madison, WI (US);

Eric Schnarr, McFarland, WI (US);

John H. Hughes, Madison, WI (US);

Jeffrey M. Kapatoes, Madison, WI (US);

Thomas R. Mackie, Verona, WI (US);

Paul J. Reckwerdt, Madison, WI (US);

Assignee:

Tomotherapy Incorpoated, Madison, WI (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 5/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A system for and method of delivering radiation therapy to a moving region of interest is disclosed. The method, in one implementation, includes the acts of generating a plurality of treatment plans for providing radiation therapy, delivering radiation therapy to the patient following one of the plurality of treatment plans, monitoring the patient while providing radiation therapy, and changing the treatment plan based at least in part on monitoring the patient.


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